Alternative agricultural practices combine productivity and soil health
Friday, July 24, 2009 - 20:56
in Earth & Climate
The progressive degradation of useful soils for agriculture and farm animal husbandry is a growing environmental and social problem, given that it endangers the food safety of an increasing world population. This fact prompted the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development - Neiker-Tecnalia - to design a series of research projects in order to evaluate alternative agricultural practices, as a function of their capacity to combine the productivity of crops with the health of the soil...